Assemblymember William Colton, who represents the area, said the corridor has a long history of dangerous crashes, several of them fatal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2019, a 3-year-old child was killed one block away from Bath Avenue on Benson Avenue,\u201d Colton said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to stop this heart\u2011wrenching destruction of our children. It just can\u2019t continue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Residents and business owners say they don\u2019t need a formal study to know drivers regularly speed down Bath Avenue and make fast, blind turns.<\/p>\n
Valerie Ocampo, a parent who lives nearby, said she constantly worries for her four daughters.<\/p>\n
\u201cCars don\u2019t respect the limit, not even school buses,\u201d she said. \u201cThey see a stop sign, they don\u2019t stop. It\u2019s dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Colton is urging the city to stagger traffic lights along the avenue, so they don\u2019t all turn green at once – a change he believes would slow drivers and reduce the risk of children being hit as they cross the street. <\/p>\n
“I’m not an expert, but we need them to take another look, like they did on Avenue T in Gravesend, and we don’t have these issues there,” he said. <\/p>\n
Residents say they support the idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need it for the kids\u2019 safety,\u201d said Beni, a local business owner. \u201cAll the churches, the mosques nearby \u2014 everybody\u2019s safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement, the Department of Transportation said it is evaluating the site, as it does after every fatal crash, and is considering Colton\u2019s request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assemblymember William Colton, who represents the area, said the corridor has a long history of dangerous crashes, several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[54176,98,100,99,13497,330,14674,1209,9189,473,9,24,63,3058,50909,55402],"class_list":["post-128396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bath-beach","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-bus","tag-bus-crash","tag-bus-drivers","tag-buses","tag-fatal-hit-and-run","tag-hit-and-run","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-school-bus","tag-school-bus-crash","tag-school-bus-driver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}